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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Most of the people coming into the border these days are not coming from Mexico.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

it is important that they have been raised. Some of them have been addressed

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Blocking or repealing the Administration's initiatives would take us backward.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

The reason why so many people are coming from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to this country is because they lack hope, they lack opportunity.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

the Visa Waiver tourists support more than a half million American jobs.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

A yes or no answer. Were you all present for the testimony of the first panel?

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

It is hard to remember that our job was to drain the swamp when we are up to our eyeballs in alligators.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

The problem that has been raised here, 24,000 checks sent to a single address, IRS has changed the rules to allow only three checks to a single address or account, so message heard.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

the President has decided to try and make several temporary improvements, hoping it would spur those of us in Congress to finish the job that we began almost 2 years ago.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Folks on our Committee here and my staff hears me say ad nauseam, find out what works, do more of that; find out what does not work, do less of that.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Rather than continue to spend another quarter-of-a-trillion dollars over the next 10 years, we have only spent 1 percent, not even 1 percent of that to try to say, how do we help make the lives of the people in Guatemala, El Salvador, or…

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

It would have also reduced our budget deficits by--listen to this--nearly $200 billion over the next 10 years.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

I do not believe that we should be threatening to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, an agency vital to our Nation's security, over disagreements with the President's policies.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

We spent a quarter-of-a-trillion dollars in the last 10 years beefing up our border security.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

the reason why is because they are living in hell holes in many cases in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Did you hear anything you agreed with? Yes or no.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

Poland is one of our strongest and most closest allies.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Feb 3, 2015

the Visa Waiver Program is more than just a revenue generator. It also serves as an important national security tool for our country.

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